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2026 · Organizing · Collectathon · Puzzle

How long isShelve the Potions!?

by Knight Owl Games

7 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 4.5 hours and 9.5 hours

A bargain: 86¢ an hour, cheaper than 787 of 880 casual games here.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 7 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4.5 hours and 9.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 639 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

When would you get there?

7days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 7 hours on Tuesday, October 27.

Half of its reviewers had played between 4.5 and 9.5 hours: Oct 25 to Oct 30 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Shelve the Potions!?

The filter

Getting the hang of it

17 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Welcome, Apprentice and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. First Shelf−298% hold it
  3. Welcome, ApprenticeFinish the tutorial.−395% hold it
  4. Getting the hang of itComplete 25 shelves.Filtered −1778% hold it
  5. It looks nicer alreadyComplete 50 shelves.−870% hold it
  6. How long has it beenComplete 100 shelves.−1258% hold it
  7. I’m going to feel my lower back tomorrowComplete 150 shelves.−652% hold it
  8. Almost thereComplete 200 shelves.−547% hold it
  9. Ah, finallyComplete All shelves.−245% hold it
How this is counted

98% of the players who launched Shelve the Potions! hold First Shelf, its first story achievement on Steam, and 45% hold Ah, finally, its last. The steepest drop comes between Welcome, Apprentice (95%) and Getting the hang of it (78%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is Shelve the Potions! worth it?

Is Shelve the Potions! worth it? Yes.

  • A steal

    2.7× the hours of a typical casual game, for the same money

  • Liked

    88% of its reviewers recommend itmost casual games: 92%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $5.99, the typical player's 7 hours come to 86¢ an hour. 88% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 86¢ an hour, Shelve the Potions! is cheaper per hour than 787 of 880 casual games here: the typical one of 880 casual games here charges $2.29, so the same $5.99 buys 2.7× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (casual games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Shelve the Potions!?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Shelve the Potions!, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Shelve the Potions! would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

Games like Shelve the Potions!

All 30 games like Shelve the Potions!, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.